• 2010
  • Not Rated
  • 1h
Ancient Worlds

Summary An Ancient society is examined, but not just from a historical point of view. The researchers try to present and approach it as if they lived in that Classical or earlier culture, religion etcetera. View more details

  • 2010
  • Not Rated
  • 1h

Ancient Worlds

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Simon Russell Beale Valerio Massimo Manfredi Julie Berry Richard Miles

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7.4

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 9, 2010

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary An Ancient society is examined, but not just from a historical point of view. The researchers try to present and approach it as if they lived in that Classical or earlier culture, religion etcetera. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Nov 9, 2010

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Episode 1 • Nov 09, 2010
Come Together
Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles explores the origins of one of the most profound innovations in our human story - civilisation. Starting in Uruk, the 'mother of all cities', in southern Iraq, he travels to Syria, Egypt, Anatolia and Greece, exploring the challenges posed by this experiment in a new way of being human.
Episode 2 • Nov 16, 2010
The Age of Iron
The program looks at the survivors and losers of the Bronze Age collapse and the civilizations which emerged in the Age of Iron.
Episode 3 • Nov 23, 2010
The Greek Thing
The program explores the blossoming of Greek art, philosophy and culture in the 5th century B.C. and contrasts it with its political discord, social injustice and endless war.
Episode 4 • Nov 30, 2010
Return of the King
Richard Miles traces Alexander the Great's battle-scarred route through Turkey, Syria and Lebanon to Egypt and ultimately to the western Punjab, Pakistan, where he discovers fascinating traces of a city where Greek west and Buddhist east were united in an intriguing new way. It was Alexander's successors, the Hellenistic Kings, who had to make sense of the legacy of this legendary adventurer. By knuckling down to the hard graft of politics, taxation and public works, they created something far more enduring than a mere legend - they built a civilization.
Episode 5 • Dec 07, 2010
Republic of Virtue
How did an insignificant cluster of Latin hill villages on the edge of the civilised world become the greatest empire the world has known? Archaeologist and historian Richard Miles examines the phenomenon of the Roman Republic, from its fratricidal mythical beginnings, with the legend of Romulus and Remus, to the all too real violence of its end, dragged to destruction by war lords like Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar.
Episode 6 • Dec 14, 2010
City of Man, City of God
In the last of the series, Richard Miles examines the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire extended the benefits of its civilization to a 60 million citizens and subjects in a swathe of territory that extended from Hadrian's Wall to the banks of the Euphrates. But the material benefits of the 'good order' delivered by Roman rule provided its citizens and subjects with the security to ask profound questions about the meaning of life, questions that the pragmatic, polytheistic Roman belief system was ill-equipped to answer.
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